In fact, the plan for a heavy thunderstorm follows the Soviet Union's thinking, and it is nothing more than that routine.

Königsberg was besieged in the north, the Danube plain was crossed in the Carpathian Mountains in the south, and the Vistula River was broken through in the center and Berlin was smashed.

In fact, Stalin's attitude was exactly the same as that of Reinhardt, who saw the non-aggression pact as a tool to cover up his war plans, and both leaders had decided not to tear up the pact as soon as the time was ripe for an attack.

It's just that this time Stalin was one step ahead of Reinhardt!

As the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin not only had the same ambition as Reinhardt to swallow up the whole of Europe, but also had the same extreme confidence in the bloated and inefficient Soviet combat effectiveness of the Soviet Union, just as Reinhardt trusted the German army's combat capabilities.

At the beginning, Stalin did not believe that the Germans would be able to penetrate the Maginot Line, which was said to be impenetrable, as early as the French campaign. However, the German blitzkrieg surprised him. It took the Germans less than 6 weeks to completely defeat the French army, which was the first in Europe!

In this way, none of the previous strategies of the USSR applied.

Stalin and his wise men had thought that the Germans would be trapped in the impenetrable Maginot Line, while the Soviets would see the opportunity to attack the east of Germany, seize the weak links of the German army, occupy Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and storm Berlin.

Then, meet the grateful Anglo-French allies somewhere on the Elbe – and if you're lucky, on the banks of the Rhine.

In this way, half of Europe would be under the control of the Soviet Union, and the peaceful revolution created by the Soviet Red Army with bayonets would not be far off.

However, Stalin's calculation had only just begun, and the war on the other side was over.

Stalin was not a fool, and after one more failed calculation, he was already determined not to make the same mistake again.

This time, Germany's large-scale landing on the British Isles was the second opportunity that the Soviet Union had waited.

On the one hand, the current German army is in full swing, its combat effectiveness is at its peak, and there is no decent opponent on the entire battlefield except for Britain, an isolated island.

In other words, if the Soviet Union did not seize this opportunity and immediately send troops, there would be no opportunity to flank Germany on both sides in the future, and there would be no teammates involved in the flanking attack.

Everyone knows that fighting on two fronts is a taboo for soldiers. Plunging the German neighbors into a war on both sides was the best option for the Soviet Union. When the French were desperate, they missed a chance. Now it is the turn of the British to fight the German Western Front, and Stalin will definitely not be stupid enough to let the German Eastern Front continue to be calm!

On the other hand, Stalin, and even most of his cronies, were extremely confident in the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army.

Stalin did not consider the Red Army to be far inferior to the Germans, on the contrary, he believed that the quality of the Red Army was at least no worse than that of the German Army, and that the Red Army was significantly stronger in size than the German Army.

He felt that he had more planes, tanks, artillery, and more soldiers than Reinhardt. Even if Sude goes head-to-head one, he has a great chance of winning.

Coupled with the fact that the German army was still pinned down by the British army on the Western Front, at this time the Soviet army went all out and seemed to have won a steady victory.

In order to launch a powerful offensive at any time, the deployment of Soviet forces was very close to the border line, which obviously lacked depth, and even did not conform to the deployment principle of the depth echelon configuration of strategic defense. Zhukov once advised Stalin that once the German army launched an offensive first, the current deployment of the Soviet army would lead to a large number of troops being surrounded and annihilated by the German army on the border line.

However, Stalin stubbornly rejected Zhukov's suggestion to rearend troops. He stubbornly decided that the front-line forces must be saturated so that the Germans could be dealt the deadliest first wave.

Fortunately, Stalin was right this time. Because the German army did not attack the Soviet Union first, it invisibly allowed a large number of Soviet troops on the border to escape the fate of being surrounded and annihilated. Even, I really waited for the opportunity to attack!

Stalin's luck, in turn, was Reinhardt's misfortune.

Sadly, after Manstein clearly reminded that the deployment of the Soviet army on the border was by no means purely for defense, but the deployment of an offensive at any time, Reinhardt still carried out the war against Britain with the psychology of a gambler.

It's not up to Reinhardt not to gamble!

He has won so many times, and now he only needs to win one game from Churchill, and the fate of the Third Reich can rest easy!

But this time, Reinhardt did underestimate Stalin's IQ and persistence, or rather, Reinhardt, who was already sitting at the gambling table, couldn't care so much, like a gambler with red eyes, like Hitler who launched Barbarossa back then, he couldn't help himself!

Hitler in history lost the main naval force in Norway, let go of the British army in Dunkirk, and failed to win the British air battle. Therefore, at that time, he could only choose to blitz the Soviet Union and win a high-risk victory.

Hitler was not stupid, but at that time, he did not have the slightest favorable background factor, and he could leave the Soviet Union alone and attack Britain first.

Therefore, he could only choose to hit the USSR first.

But now, Reinhardt has these factors, and has a stronger army, land, and air force than in history. So for him, attacking Britain first is the most suitable choice now.

After all, he knows better than anyone how dangerous Britain, a time bomb left on the back of the Third Reich, is!

However, alas, Stalin was not stupid either. After missing the opportunity to intervene in the German-French campaign as he did in history, he resolutely inserted into the current Anglo-German campaign in time.

And this meddling was fatal for Germany!

Therefore, any leader in history will not be an idiot who can complain about a random editor on the Internet.

The seemingly flawed choices of the leaders of various countries during World War II were basically the best choices at that time.

Don't say why Hitler was stupid and didn't know to take Britain first, and don't scold Stalin for being stupid enough not to know how to deploy enough forces in depth. Judging from the situation they are in, many of the things that have been summed up by later generations are biased.

Of course, there is an exception among the leaders, and that is the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, who is still lying in a hospital bed and is not yet fully conscious. He made a lot of decisions...... It's 100% stupid!

And now, on the Eastern Front in Germany.

A country with twice as many tanks as the German troops stationed in Poland, 10,000 more artillery, 10 times more fighters than the German army, and nearly twice as many troops as the German army on the Eastern Front that had not yet been assembled, declared war on the Third Reich!